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. 1988 Sep;54(3):527–533. doi: 10.1016/S0006-3495(88)82985-0

TI-205 nuclear magnetic resonance determination of the thermodynamic parameters for the binding of monovalent cations to gramicidins A and C.

J F Hinton 1, J Q Fernandez 1, D C Shungu 1, W L Whaley 1, R E Koeppe 2nd 1, F S Millett 1
PMCID: PMC1330351  PMID: 2462930

Abstract

Thermodynamic parameters for the binding of the monovalent cations, Li+, Na+, K+, Rb+, Cs+, NH4+, TI+, and Ag+, to gramicidin A and for the binding of TI+ to gramicidin C, incorporated into lysophosphatidylcholine, have been determined using a combination of TI-205 nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy and competition binding. The thermodynamic parameters, enthalpy and entropy, are discussed in terms of a process involving the transfer of cations from an aqueous to amide environment.

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